tecuhtli (MH749r)
This black-line drawing provides an iconographic example of the way elite males could be portrayed. It is a man’s head in profile, looking to the right. The head is inside of a building (probably a calli), also in profile and facing right. On the man’s head is the crown-like diadem called the xiuhhuitzolli. This adornment suggests that he is a lord (tecuhtli, also spelled teuctli).
Stephanie Wood
The diadem by itself can serve as a glyph for the title tecuhtli, as examples below will attest.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
señores, diademas
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/tecuhtliMH749rICONmaleelite.png?itok=lo9_3Qtt)
tecuh(tli), a lord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuhtli
el principal
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 749r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=576&st=image
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![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/tecuhtliMH749rContext.png)